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Norm enforcement: anger, indignation or reciprocity?

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2005

The enforcement of social norms often requires that unaffected third parties sanction offenders. Given the renewed interest of economists in norms, the literature on third party punishment is surprisingly thin, however. In this paper, we report on the results of an experiment designed to...

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Social Reciprocity

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004

reciprocators intervene whenever a norm is violated and do not condition intervention on potential future payoffs, revenge, or …

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Competitive Preferences among Asians in the U.S.

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa - 2020

The median income of Asian households is the highest of all racial/ethnic groups in the U.S. In a laboratory experiment, we examine whether Asians are more willing to compete and have greater competitive preferences than non-Asians. Both with and without controls for performance, performance...

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Norm Enforcement: Anger, Indignation or Reciprocity?

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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Social Reciprocity

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

reciprocators intervene whenever a norm is violated and do not condition intervention on potential future payoffs, revenge, or …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823004

Quashing Demand Criminalizing Clients? Evidence from the UK

Della Giusta, Marina; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Jewell, Sarah - 2019

We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom … down on prostitution with the Prostitution (Public Places) Scotland Act 2007 and the Policing and Crime Act of 2009 in … prostitution. …

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Unsafe Sex in the City: Risk Pricing in the London Area

Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr - 2018

This paper studies the incidence, determinants and pricing of unprotected oral sex in the London sex services market. The analysis is based upon matched sex worker-client panel data, which were collected from "field reports" on PunterNet.com website over the 1999-2009 time period. We find a...

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The prostitute's allure: Examining returns to beauty, productivity and discrimination

Arunachalam, Raj; Shah, Manisha - 2010

We estimate the earnings premium for beauty in an occupation where returns to physical attractiveness are likely to be important: commercial sex work. In the commercial sex market, perhaps more so than any other sector in the labor market, the beauty premium should be at the extreme due to the...

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Street Prostitution Zones and Crime

Bisschop, Paul; Kastoryano, Stephen; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2015

This paper studies the effects of introducing legal street prostitution zones on both registered and perceived crime …. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where legal street prostitution zones were opened in nine cities under … street prostitution zone decreases registered sexual abuse and rape by about 30% to 40% in the first two years. For cities …

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Generational Accounting as a Tool to Assess Fiscal Sustainability: An Overview of the Methodology

Bonin, Holger; Patxot, Concepció - 2004

The paper surveys the methodology of generational accounting, a tool for gauging intertemporal imbalance in government …

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